commercial recovery
Defined in 1 place of the United States Code.
“commercial recovery” means—
(A) any activity engaged in at sea to recover any hard mineral resource at a substantial rate for the primary purpose of marketing or commercially using such resource to earn a net profit, whether or not such net profit is actually earned;
(B) if such recovered hard mineral resource will be processed at sea, such processing; and
(C) if the waste of such activity to recover any hard mineral resource, or of such processing at sea, will be disposed of at sea, such disposal;
Source
- 1994–present30 U.S.C. § 1403Mineral Lands and Mining · Definitions · for purposes of this chapter